Arsenal: Alexandre Lacazette wages look like bad news

Arsenal are going to be making Alexandre Lacazette the club’s highest paid player, but could that actually be bad news for Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil?

Arsenal’s deal for Alexandre Lacazette is so near completion that it’s reached the point where Gooners have swarmed Twitter, berating the club for the torturous wait. It’s all just a matter of time, but damn, if it could just happen, that would be great.

Anyway, most of the facts are apparently already known. Lacazette is looking at a five-year deal worth £200,000 a week, which is a really solid deal, mostly because they locked him down for a long time and his wages are not astronomical. And we still aren’t in the Champions League, which makes me continuously giddy that we were even able to land him.

My point, though, about his wages, is that I’m not sure what this might mean for Alexis Sanchez. The Chilean makes less than that, right at £140,000, which is criminally underpaid, granted. And that’s why he is looking for a raise.

Reports are saying that he may be looking for up to £300,000 in weekly wages, making him the highest paid man in England and most other places too. And it prompted Sir Chips Keswick, of the much-maligned Arsenal board, to come out and say that he wasn’t planning on offering modern wages to the superstar duo of Alexis and Mesut Ozil.

That assessment is reinforced by Lacazette’s supposed wages. While a nice chunk of change, they aren’t what you’d expect from a club-record signing at striker. He would be earning less than just about every other striker on a major Premier League club.

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And that could be a byproduct of no Champions League play, but at the same time, I have to wonder if this means that the board is serious about not breaking the bank on keeping Alexis. If this is what Lacazette is making, why would they pay Alexis 50% more? The reports of a contract worth £250,000 or so seem much more believable and could be the death sentence for the Chilean.

The best thing we can hope for is that the very signing of Lacazette will prompt Alexis to stay without the assurance of the bookoo bucks he is hoping for.

Or, if you really want to be optimistic (which, when it comes to money and the board, I rarely am), )you could think that because Lacazette is not going to be making the big (big as in huge) bucks, then that means that Alexis can make what Lacazette isn’t.

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So let’s just pretend like that’s what’s happening here.

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